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Author Name: Dan Cupper
Title: Horseshoe Heritage - The Story of a Great Railroad Landmark
Seller ID: WP110
For the first time - the complete story of Horseshoe Curve, one of America's earliest and best-known train-watching sites. Opened in 1854 on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Curve has been in service continuously for 138 years. Today, Conrail's unit coal trains and piggyback freights still struggle up (and down) the East Slope grade of the Alleghenies once battled by wood-burning 4-4-0s. Construction and growth to four tracks; never-fulfilled plans to electrify it or bypass it; runaways, wrecks, and near-wrecks; famous trains, famous passengers; the 1942 Nazi plot to destroy it; the Sylvania night photo, taken in 1954; the K4's placement and 1985 removal; and rebirth with the opening of a $5 million visitor center.Special features include dozens of B&W photos; a color section; and a map by railroad author/artist Mike Schafer.
Soft cover, 60 pages (4 color pages), 8.5 x 11 in., 111 photos (13 color photos). Retail $9.95.
Price = 8.00 USD
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